Cass County Arrest Records and Court Charges
Cass County arrest records are law-enforcement records tied to an arrest, booking, arresting agency, officer, and related custody information. They are not the same as the court charge record. After an arrest, the Cass County Prosecuting Attorney reviews the facts and decides what formal charges, if any, to file in court. Once filed, those charges become part of the criminal court case maintained through the Cass County Clerk and searchable in MyCase when public.
The arrest side may involve the Cass County Sheriff's Office, Cass County Jail, or a city police agency such as Logansport Police. The court-charge side involves the prosecutor and the Circuit or Superior Court case. For custody and jail booking detail, use the inmate-record route. For the full criminal case file, plea, disposition, and sentence, use Cass County criminal court records. Court charges after arrest are the bridge between those two systems.
The official Cass County Sheriff's Office page identifies Sheriff Ed Schroder, command staff, detectives, investigation contacts, and public-safety functions.
The Sheriff's Office source helps locate law-enforcement contacts, but it does not create the filed court charge record.
Find Cass County Arrest Records and Charges
For filed charges, start with Indiana MyCase. Search by defendant name, case number, citation number, court, status, and filed date. The charge section can show offense date, offense description, modification, citation number, offense statute, offense degree, original degree, and original offense description. If the charge is not yet filed, MyCase may not show a court case.
- Search MyCase by case number if the court case is known, or by name if only the defendant name is known.
- Use the Court field to narrow to Cass County court entries when the statewide results are broad.
- Open the case summary and read the charge list for each count, statute, level, and modification.
- Check events and disposition entries to see whether a charge is pending, amended, dismissed, reduced, or resolved.
- Contact the Clerk for certified court-charge records or documents that are not public online.
For law-enforcement arrest records, use the agency that made or holds the arrest record. The Cass County Jail phone is 574-753-7800. Logansport Police records can be requested by email, in person, or fax through its records process. The public research did not identify an official Cass County mugshot database, so the safer route is agency records plus MyCase verification.
The Logansport Police Department records page documents local background-check, public-records-request, and police-report request channels.
City police records are separate from Cass County court charges, so a police report may exist even when a court case has not been filed or is not public.
Charges After Arrest in Cass County
Indiana uses the term Prosecuting Attorney rather than District Attorney. The Cass County Prosecutor represents the State of Indiana in the 29th Judicial Circuit and handles adult and juvenile criminal cases, grand jury proceedings, citizen complaints, charge decisions, plea policy, bad checks, and related law-enforcement training. The charging document is the formal filing that starts or defines the criminal accusation in court.
| Charging Document | Who Uses It | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
| Complaint | Often law enforcement or prosecutor-supported filing. | States alleged facts and can support the start of a criminal case. |
| Information | Prosecutor. | Formally lists the charges the State files without a grand jury indictment. |
| Indictment | Grand jury process. | Charges an offense after grand jury action, when that route is used. |
One arrest can lead to no charges, one charge, or several separate counts. The filed court charge is read by count, statute, level, description, and disposition. Booking charges shown by a jail system should be verified against MyCase or the Clerk because the prosecutor may file different, amended, reduced, or fewer charges than the booking record first suggests.
Cass County Charge Status
Charge status changes as the case moves. A charge can be pending before final disposition, amended by later filing, reduced through a plea or agreement, dismissed by court action, or resolved by conviction or acquittal. MyCase charge fields and docket events should be read together. The charge list identifies the count; the event and disposition history explains what happened to it.
| Status | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Pending | The court has not entered a final outcome for that charge. |
| Amended | The prosecutor changed the charge, description, statute, or degree through later filing. |
| Reduced | The charge level or offense was lowered, often as part of plea negotiations or amendment. |
| Dismissed | The court ended that charge without a conviction on that count. |
| Acquitted | The defendant was found not guilty of that charge. |
| Convicted | The charge ended in a guilty plea, guilty verdict, or qualifying judgment. |
Charge vs Conviction
An arrest, charge, and conviction are three different points. An arrest record shows custody or law-enforcement action. A charge shows the prosecutor's formal accusation in court. A conviction shows the outcome after a guilty plea, guilty finding, or qualifying judgment. Cass County arrest records and charges should be read carefully because a public charge may later be dismissed or reduced.
| Point | Charge | Conviction |
|---|---|---|
| Record Stage | Filed after prosecutor review. | Entered after plea, verdict, or judgment. |
| Proof Level | Accusation supported enough to file. | Final guilty outcome under criminal procedure. |
| Where to Read | Charge section and docket events. | Disposition and sentencing entries. |
| Common Mistake | Treating a filed count as a final result. | Ignoring dismissed or amended counts. |
Note: A Cass County arrest record or booking charge should be verified against the filed court case before drawing conclusions.
Charge Codes and Case Levels
MyCase charge fields can show the statute, offense degree, original offense degree, description, modification, citation number, and offense date. Indiana case-type codes also identify broad criminal categories, including F1 through F6 felonies, murder, misdemeanors, miscellaneous criminal, post-conviction, and older Class A through Class D felony codes. Infraction and ordinance cases may appear separately as IF or OV records.
The code or level does not tell the whole story. A Level 6 felony charge might later be reduced. A misdemeanor count might be dismissed. A traffic or ordinance event might produce a failure-to-appear issue. The court record must be read from the first filed charge through the last disposition and sentence. For a fuller case-level view, use Cass County criminal court records.
Cass County Arrest Records and Sheriff App
The Cass County Sheriff, IN mobile app appears in both major app stores. The store descriptions describe an interactive app for communication with area residents, crime reports, submitting tips, public-safety news, and other interactive features. The listings do not advertise an official inmate lookup, active-warrant search, public-records portal, or most-wanted database. It should be treated as a tips and public-safety communication channel, not as the official court-charge record.
The Cass County Sheriff, IN app on Google Play documents the public-safety communication features available through the Android listing.
Tip and news features can support public-safety communication, but filed court charges still need MyCase or Clerk verification.
The Cass County Sheriff, IN app on the Apple App Store repeats the communication and emergency-use warning for iOS users.
The Apple listing is also not a court database, so arrest tips, agency alerts, and filed charges should not be mixed into one record source.
Restricted Cass County Arrest Records
Access limits differ by source. Court-charge records follow Indiana Administrative Rule 9 and the Rules on Access to Court Records. Law-enforcement records may follow APRA and agency-specific limits. Juvenile records, sealed records, expunged records, protected addresses, mental-health material, confidential identifiers, and investigative records may be withheld or redacted. A missing online result does not always mean no arrest, no charge, or no case exists.
Indiana expungement law, including IC 35-38-9 in Title 35, can restrict eligible arrest, charge, and conviction records after the proper petition and court order. A granted expungement changes official public access first. It does not guarantee that every private background-check or copied website entry disappears at once. For court documents, contact the Cass County Clerk. For police reports, contact the agency that made or holds the record.